The language changes, the tactics remain the same.
Fan division in society. Create crisis. Let the fuel be the audience's priors
Here is what matters most. This network does not tell Spaniards who to vote for.
Direct electoral content is a handful of items per channel. Instead, for every crisis in Spain, it moves to set the dominant interpretation faster than Spanish newsrooms can report the facts.
Five frames carry almost all of its Spain-facing output: the real foreign hand is Israel, the US and Morocco; the train crash was sabotage; Spain is attacked because it arms Ukraine; Russia protects Spanish territory from Morocco; all parties are the same, so voting changes nothing.
None of this touches the ballot. All of it touches the voter.
That was Spain. This is Italy. Same tactics tweaked for the audience
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Numericamente, i canali italiani sono la parte più consistente da cui Pravda attinge, ne vengono citati diverse decine, ma si può rilevare come statisticamente ci sia uno zoccolo duro utilizzato in maniera più sistematica degli altri, nel quale appare spesso - per alcuni sempre - lo schema ricorrente di passaggi coordinati visti nei precedenti capitoli, che prevedono l’acquisire notizie da fonti russe, operare un primo passaggio di traduzione, riconfezionarne una versione più specifica per l’Italia o per le caratteristiche del canale per massimizzare l’engagement per poi, tramite una sorta di gioco di specchi, operare una diffusione massiva per cui i contenuti vengono reciprocamente condivisi da multipli canali, gruppi o piattaforme.
A questo si va poi ad aggiungere una personalizzazione a carattere locale e più orizzontale per diffondere notizie create da soggetti esplicitamente filorussi (l’Antiplomatico, Byoblu, Giubbe Rosse, Faro di Roma, Contropiano, etc.) e dalla carta stampata a diffusione nazionale allineata allo storytelling di Mosca (Il Fatto Quotidiano, La Verità) oppure per denigrare o diffamare specifici esponenti politici o della società civile favorevoli al sostegno all’Ucraina (Calenda, Cavo Dragone, Picierno, etc.).
Dopo aver già analizzato i 7 canali russi, visto il numero elevato dei canali italiani rilanciati dalla rete, li ho raggruppati per affinità tematiche o politiche che vedete organizzate in questa infografica di cui, a seguire nei prossimi giorni, ne vedremo in dettaglio la maggior parte
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Here is what matters most. This network does not tell Spaniards who to vote for.
Direct electoral content is a handful of items per channel. Instead, for every crisis in Spain, it moves to set the dominant interpretation faster than Spanish newsrooms can report the facts.
Five frames carry almost all of its Spain-facing output: the real foreign hand is Israel, the US and Morocco; the train crash was sabotage; Spain is attacked because it arms Ukraine; Russia protects Spanish territory from Morocco; all parties are the same, so voting changes nothing.
None of this touches the ballot. All of it touches the voter.
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Layer three: the landing end. This is where it stops looking Russian.
Domestic Spanish "patriot" aggregators and political channels with six-figure audiences. Their output is 74 to 86 percent forwards. They take the frames from the ring and deliver them to Spanish voters on the far right and the far left alike.
Nothing here is covert. That is the point. One source reaches hundreds of thousands of Spaniards while appearing as dozens of independent voices. The reader sees a Spanish channel talking about Spanish problems. The feed behind it starts in Moscow.
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How is Russia's network inside Spain organised, and how does it push content?
Our 11-week analysis of Spain's information space shows three layers.
Layer one: the hub. A Telegram channel run from Moscow by Enrique Arias Gil, a Spanish political scientist living under Russian protection. It is small, about 500 readers per post. Its job is not reach. Its job is production: translating Russian hacktivist attack claims into Spanish within the hour, publishing recruitment offers for informants, hackers and soldiers, and doxxing Spanish security personnel.
Everything above it is Russian. Everything below it is built to look Spanish.
Spain votes on Nov 29. Russia is already inside the conversation.
An 11-week OSINT investigation collected 54,737 posts across X, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, mapped 10,773 accounts and 3,284 network links.
The headline isn't "disinformation." It's recruitment. A Spaniard in Moscow is openly hiring his own countrymen as informants, hackers and soldiers. In Spanish. During the campaign.
Around him, a ring of pro-Russian channels with ~500K subscriptions feeds ready-made narratives to ordinary Spaniards, deciding how every crisis gets explained before the facts arrive.
This is a national security problem dressed up as a media problem.
Full report:
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Let this sink in: ICE agents reportedly blocked the emergency entrance of a Los Angeles hospital for TWO HOURS, forcing ambulances carrying people who needed emergency care to go elsewhere.
This isn’t law enforcement. This is a reckless abuse of power that put innocent people’s lives at risk.
An ambulance entrance is not a political battleground. A hospital emergency room is not an immigration checkpoint.
And federal agents do not get to hold an entire community’s access to emergency medical care hostage.
Imagine being in an ambulance, fighting for your life, only to be diverted because federal agents decided their operation mattered more than emergency access.
Where is the humanity? Where is the accountability? And where is the line that these agents are no longer allowed to cross?
You cannot claim to be protecting America while putting Americans’ lives in danger.
This isn’t making America great. It’s making America cruel. And anyone defending this should be ashamed.
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Russia struck an underground humanitarian aid center in Komyshuvakha on Nov. 2 with a double-tap aerial bomb attack. As of Nov. 6, 53 people have been confirmed dead, and another 53 remain missing.
"Almost the entire world is silent about this," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
"In this one settlement alone, in just one day, nearly 100 people may have been killed by Russian bombs."
kyivindependent.com/its-like…
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Over 200,000 Florida republicans voted for a guy who raped his toddler grandson. But please continue to lecture about how democrats can’t be Christians
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I see a lot of fellas are tagging me about this poll. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I will post this poll again.
Vote No 👇🗳️🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨
Illia visits Bizarro World to bring us the Trump world counterpart to Keegan-Michael Key's Obama Anger Translator, the Kushner Diplomat Translator
Okay, I sat down and translated parts of yet another pompous statement from Jared Kushner about Trump’s incredible peace initiatives, explaining what his carefully worded euphemisms actually mean, so you don’t have to.
“…the need for a broader European security architecture that can help establish the conditions for lasting peace…”
= “Europe will have to completely capitulate to Putin, make him the master of the continent, and live under his dictates, because we’re absolutely itching to get our hands on Lukoil’s foreign assets.”
“For more than 30 years, Europe and Russia have struggled to establish a sustainable security framework.”
= “For decades, Europe and the entire West enjoyed peace and stability, until Putin, in his old age, suddenly got the itch to conquer Ukraine again, fucked it up spectacularly, and now somehow that’s everybody else’s problem.”
“Our objective is to develop practical arrangements that address the security concerns of all sides, reduce the risk of future conflict, and create a more stable and predictable security environment.”
= “You will be required to surrender everything and remain defenseless, while Putin will give you absolutely nothing in return and won’t be obliged to do a damn thing.”
“Decades of mistrust, competing security concerns, and the devastating consequences of this war make this an extraordinarily difficult challenge, but one that is essential to lasting peace.”
= “And we’re also going to blame you and Ukraine for Russia’s aggressive imperialism.”
“Any arrangements must fully respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independent decision-making of every nation.”
= “And Putin will decide where your sovereignty begins and ends, where your borders lie, and just how much independence you’re allowed to have.”
“Each country will retain authority over its own security and alliances, and no country would have a veto over another’s sovereign choices.”
= “Yes, unless Putin decides that you’re not actually a real country at all, but an inseparable part of Russia’s sphere of influence, and that your ability to defend yourself against an invasion constitutes an existential threat to Russia.”
“We will consult closely with our European partners on the sidelines and, if progress is made, aim to move toward a broader multilateral format with their direct participation.”
= “Nobody is going to discuss a damn thing with Ukraine or Europe. There won’t be, and never has been, anything here except our attempts to sell out and betray you to Putin for the highest possible price. And I’ll throw in a whole bunch of meaningless, boilerplate diplomatic phrases to make this bullshit look vaguely serious and respectable.”
“There are no easy solutions.”
= “Russia could simply get the hell out of Ukraine and stop launching wars of aggression whenever it wants, but that’s not what Putin is promising us money for.”
“We will see how these discussions develop and continue working intensively with all parties toward President Trump’s objective of a comprehensive and lasting peace.”
= “Of course, absolutely nothing will come of any of this, just as nothing has come of all the previous years of these ridiculous ‘negotiations,’ during which we’ve been actively helping Putin wage his war. But we couldn’t care less. That’s not what we’re here for.”
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Okay, I sat down and translated parts of yet another pompous statement from Jared Kushner about Trump’s incredible peace initiatives, explaining what his carefully worded euphemisms actually mean, so you don’t have to.
“…the need for a broader European security architecture that can help establish the conditions for lasting peace…”
= “Europe will have to completely capitulate to Putin, make him the master of the continent, and live under his dictates, because we’re absolutely itching to get our hands on Lukoil’s foreign assets.”
“For more than 30 years, Europe and Russia have struggled to establish a sustainable security framework.”
= “For decades, Europe and the entire West enjoyed peace and stability, until Putin, in his old age, suddenly got the itch to conquer Ukraine again, fucked it up spectacularly, and now somehow that’s everybody else’s problem.”
“Our objective is to develop practical arrangements that address the security concerns of all sides, reduce the risk of future conflict, and create a more stable and predictable security environment.”
= “You will be required to surrender everything and remain defenseless, while Putin will give you absolutely nothing in return and won’t be obliged to do a damn thing.”
“Decades of mistrust, competing security concerns, and the devastating consequences of this war make this an extraordinarily difficult challenge, but one that is essential to lasting peace.”
= “And we’re also going to blame you and Ukraine for Russia’s aggressive imperialism.”
“Any arrangements must fully respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independent decision-making of every nation.”
= “And Putin will decide where your sovereignty begins and ends, where your borders lie, and just how much independence you’re allowed to have.”
“Each country will retain authority over its own security and alliances, and no country would have a veto over another’s sovereign choices.”
= “Yes, unless Putin decides that you’re not actually a real country at all, but an inseparable part of Russia’s sphere of influence, and that your ability to defend yourself against an invasion constitutes an existential threat to Russia.”
“We will consult closely with our European partners on the sidelines and, if progress is made, aim to move toward a broader multilateral format with their direct participation.”
= “Nobody is going to discuss a damn thing with Ukraine or Europe. There won’t be, and never has been, anything here except our attempts to sell out and betray you to Putin for the highest possible price. And I’ll throw in a whole bunch of meaningless, boilerplate diplomatic phrases to make this bullshit look vaguely serious and respectable.”
“There are no easy solutions.”
= “Russia could simply get the hell out of Ukraine and stop launching wars of aggression whenever it wants, but that’s not what Putin is promising us money for.”
“We will see how these discussions develop and continue working intensively with all parties toward President Trump’s objective of a comprehensive and lasting peace.”
= “Of course, absolutely nothing will come of any of this, just as nothing has come of all the previous years of these ridiculous ‘negotiations,’ during which we’ve been actively helping Putin wage his war. But we couldn’t care less. That’s not what we’re here for.”
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So, let me flag a few things, traitor.
1. "European security architecture" is a phrase the Kremlin uses. We already have one: it's called NATO.
2. You conflate (as you always do) the victim of this war with the aggressor. The aggressor is Russia.
3. "Root causes" is Russian for "do it our way" and you know it.
4. Nothing a word about Russian withdrawal, the occupied territories, POWs or deported children. Weird.
5. Lavrov wrote this for you.
6. Fuck Putin, fuck Russia, and fuck you.
President Trump today advanced an important discussion with several European leaders about the need for a broader European security architecture that can help establish the conditions for lasting peace.
Building on his leadership and the substantive work undertaken this week in Brussels with Ukraine, NATO, and our European partners, @SEPeaceMissions and I wanted to share some of the objectives guiding our ongoing discussions.
For more than 30 years, Europe and Russia have struggled to establish a sustainable security framework. Decades of mistrust, competing security concerns, and the devastating consequences of this war make this an extraordinarily difficult challenge, but one that is essential to lasting peace.
Our objective is to develop practical arrangements that address the security concerns of all sides, reduce the risk of future conflict, and create a more stable and predictable security environment.
We are exploring five principal goals: permanent security consultations, reliable crisis communications, greater military transparency, reciprocal measures to reduce escalation risks, and an enduring framework for long-term European security and stability.
Any arrangements must fully respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independent decision-making of every nation. Each country will retain authority over its own security and alliances, and no country would have a veto over another’s sovereign choices. NATO will remain central to European collective defense, and this initiative would build upon existing institutions and commitments.
We will continue consultations through the Shell Bay format with Ukraine, NATO, the EU, and our European partners, expanding engagement to ensure that all relevant perspectives and ideas are considered. We will also engage Russia as part of the peace negotiations.
Next week in Abu Dhabi, the United States will convene the first trilateral peace discussions with Ukraine and Russia since February. All parties remain intensely engaged in preparing for substantive and productive negotiations. We will consult closely with our European partners on the sidelines and, if progress is made, aim to move toward a broader multilateral format with their direct participation.
These ideas continue to evolve, and we welcome thoughtful input. Creating the right structure will be critical to ending this war and transitioning from conflict toward conditions that make possible a durable peace.
This is difficult, detailed work. There are no easy solutions. But the opportunity to help end this devastating war and build a foundation for a more peaceful, secure, and prosperous Europe for generations to come makes it a challenge well worth undertaking.
We will see how these discussions develop and continue working intensively with all parties toward President Trump’s objective of a comprehensive and lasting peace.
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Every MAGAt in this picture has been accused, indicted, convicted of, or found civilly liable for sex crimes. Three are currently in jail.
Andrew Tate @Cobratate - Indicted/Charged with multiple counts or rape and human trafficking
Russell Brand @rustyrockets - Convicted of Rape
Donald Trump @DonaldTrump - Civilly Liable / A federal Judge stated he raped E. Jean Caroll
Mike Tyson @MikeTyson - Convicted of Rape
Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA - Civilly liable for Sexual Assault
Lawrence Taylor @LT_56 - Registered Sex Offender. Arrest for sex with a minor.
Tristan Tate @TateTheTalisman - Indicted/Charged with multiple counts or rape and human trafficking
MAGA trying on the Berniebro/tankie cloak. The horseshoe draws to a close
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When Putin seized Crimea, both Europe and America were quite openly making calls, holding meetings, and sending signals to the Ukrainians who were in power at the time that there should be no escalation – let's just keep things friendly and leave things as they are for now. And we lost Crimea. After that, we lost part of Donbas. But the shooting in the east continued. There was no peace.
People think we were always helped. That is not true. Help started coming after the full-scale invasion, but that was after eight years of Russia occupying our territory. That is a long time to figure things out and understand that Putin has no intention of giving anything back to us.
At one point, some Europeans asked me: “Why do you think that if you withdraw from Donbas, he will go further?” And I answered: “Because at the beginning of the war, he wasn't seizing Donbas. He came to the capital. He seized parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, Kherson itself, and Kharkiv region.” We have retaken a lot of territory, but he had seized different parts of our country. And now they want us to give them something because they are unable to seize it. We may have a smaller territory, less money, and fewer weapons, but we still have more dignity than many others. We will do everything we can to end this war, but it must end in a way that preserves our dignity.
From an interview with ZDF. (2/3)
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Referring to Brand? If so, it's bc they know there are fast more conspiracy theorists and the right will eat up the "they're trying to silence me" line. Plus the grifters with followers will promote
